contra

Ultimately from Latin contrā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒntɹə/

contra

1. against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to

• against, anti

• for, pro

contra (comparative more contra, superlative most contra)

1. contrary to something

• See also Thesaurus:contrarily

contra (plural contras)

1. (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
2. (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
3. (accounting, often attributive) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).

   Synonym: counterentry

   a contra position; a contra entry

   The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.

4. (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
5. (dance) A contra dance.
6. (obsolete, US, New England, dance) A country dance.
   • 2001, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 232.

     Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.

contra (third-person singular simple present contras, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)

1. (accounting) To undo; to reverse.

   to contra a position (an entry)

• Cantor, Carnot, Carton, Catron, TRACON, cantor, carton, corant, craton, tracon

From Latin contrā.

contra

1. against

From Latin contrā.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.tɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.tɾa/

contra

1. against
   • 2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono:

     Més endavant, va parlar contra la gent sense família

     But before, he spoke against people without family

contra m (plural contres)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

• contra-
• contrari

• “contra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “contra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “contra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “contra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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contra

1. against

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

From Spanish contra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkontrɑ/, [ˈko̞n̪t̪rɑ]

contra

1. Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter)

• contrasissi

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contra

1. third-person singular past historic of contrer

• carton

From Latin contrā.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkontɾɐ]

contra

1. against

• contra de
• pola contra

contra f (plural contras)

1. (usually in the plural) shutter

• “contra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “contra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “contra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “contra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “contra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• “contra” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkon.tra/
• Rhymes: -ontra
• Hyphenation: cón‧tra

From Latin contrā.

contra

1. (archaic) Alternative form of contro (“against”)

• → Maltese: kontra
• → Turkish: kontra

• contra-

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

contra

1. inflection of contrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Tronca, tronca

From Latin contrā.

contra

1. against

From Proto-Italic *komterād, abl.sg.f. of *komteros (“the other of the two who meet, opposite”). The abl.sg.m./n. of the same is continued in Latin contrō-, cognate to Oscan contrud. Ultimately a suffixed form of Latin cum, Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”), like intrā from in, extrā from ex, but unlike these lacking external cognates, and therefore of Italic origin.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.traː/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪räː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.tra/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪rä]

contrā (not comparable)

1. against
2. opposite to
3. contrary to
4. otherwise
5. in return, back

contrā (+ accusative)

1. against
2. across from, opposite

• contrārius

• “contra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• contra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to contradict some one: dicere contra aliquem or aliquid (not contradicere alicui)
    
  • it is a breach of duty to..: contra officium est c. Inf.
    
  • for the advantage of the state; in the interests of the state: e re publica (opp. contra rem p.)
    
  • a thing is illegal: aliquid contra legem est
    
  • to foster revolutionary projects: contra rem publicam sentire
    
  • to be guilty of high treason: contra rem publicam facere
    
  • to conspire with some one: conspirare cum aliquo (contra aliquem)
    
  • against all law, human and divine: contra ius fasque
    
• contra in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin contra.

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contra

1. against

From Latin contrā.

• Hyphenation: con‧tra

contra

1. against

   Antonyms: a favor, em prol, em favor, em defesa

• “contra” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from French contre, Italian contra, Latin contrā. Doublet of the inherited către.

contra

1. against, versus

contra

1. against, opposed to, opposite
2. in exchange for

Inherited from Latin contrā. Old Spanish had cuentra as well, with diphthongization of stressed Latin /ŏ/. As the word was generally atonic, the unstressed variant contra prevailed over time.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkontɾa/ [ˈkõn̪.t̪ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -ontɾa
• Syllabification: con‧tra

contra

1. against, versus

   la lucha contra el prejuicio

   the fight against prejudice

   Synonym: en oposición a

   Antonym: a favor de

• contrario
• encontrar

• Hiligaynon: kontra
• Tagalog: kontra

contra m (plural contras)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

contra f (plural contras)

1. antidote
2. counterpunch

contra

1. opposite, facing

   Synonym: en oposición a

   Antonym: a favor de

• “contra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “contra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 182